Mom gave pills and ride to drug dealer son

PORT ORCHARD — A 57-year-old Poulsbo woman was charged Tuesday with helping supply her drug dealer son with pain pills and driving him to sell the pills and heroin to an informant on Bainbridge Island.

Her son, 30, was sentenced to 16 months in prison last month for the case, which started with the purchase of the drugs in August 2013. In court documents, an investigator wrote that he was involved in a similar case, where the woman drove her son to sell marijuana in 2009.

The recent charges come after a Bainbridge detective listened to phone calls between the mother and son while the son was in the Kitsap County Jail, as well as a review of medical records that show the woman had been prescribed 120 oxycodone pills a month.

Court documents show that during a conversation the mother repeatedly told the son to stop making incriminating statements, at one point yelling, "Will you stop talking?"

Inmates are routinely informed their conversations are being recorded and monitored.

One of the subjects discussed was how the son was planning to bear the brunt of prosecution for his mother, including hiding her part in the dealing from family members in a letter he was writing to a family member.

"I'm pretty much going to tell him everything, except for your involvement," the man said.

The woman was charged Tuesday with delivery of a controlled substance.